TICKETS IN "TATTS"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 160, 15 May 1940, Page 5

TICKETS IN "TATTS"

CENSORS ON THE WAR-PATH MONEY RETURNED Those Whakatane sportsmen who have been in the habit of buying postal-notes for 5s 4d and despatching them to various addresses in Tasmania in an endeavour to get into the 'big money' via Tattersall's Consultations, can consider themselves lucky in future if their money gets anywhere near Hobart. Several speculators recently had their postal-notes returned to them, with a card, nicely jDrinted, also in the envelope. The card reads: "This letter is returned by the Censorship Authorities for the reason that bank notes, postal notes, or other forms or security may not, under the provisions of the Finance Emergency Regulations, 1940, be sent out of New Zealand without a permit from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand." Of course the Postal authorities for years have had the power of stopping the traffic. That was the reason for the constant changing of the addresses to which money could be forwarded. Sometimes it happened. The question at present exercising the minds of many of our gamblers is: Who will be game enough to test the Reserve Bank for a permit for 5/4?